Spectacle-frame



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J. E. SHARING.

SPEGTAGLE FRAME.

No. 400,957; PatentedApr. 9, 1889.

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JAMES E. SEARING, OF MOUNT VERNON, NEIV YORK.

SPECTACLE-FRAM E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 400,957, dated April 9,1889.

Application filed December 27, 1888. Serial No. 294,796. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES E. SEARING, a citizen of the United States,residing; at Mount Vernon, in the county of \Vestchester and State ofNew York, have in vented certain new and useful Improvements inSpectacle- Frames; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

This invention relates generally to the construction ofspectacle-frames; and it consists in an improved construction of suchframes, whereby their manufacture is facilitated and their costlessened.

In an application for United States Letters Patent filed by me on orabout August 19, 1886, Serial No. 211,300, there is described andclaimed a mode of making spectacle-frames of a single piece of metalfrom end to end, one end of the lens containing rims being adjustably ordetachably connected to the body of the frame, whereby the insertion andremoval of a lens is facilitated and the necessity for accurate sizes ofrims and lens to fit them is obviated.

The present invention contemplates the employment of such detachable oradjustable feature in connection with another mode of forming thespectacle-frame.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating a practical embodiment oftheinvention, Figure 1 is a plan view of the parts necessary to form asingle spectacle-frame. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is asimilar view, the lens containing rims and bridge-piece being formedinto shape. sectional elevation of the detachable end of one of therims, and Fig. 5 is asimilar view of a modified form of the same. Fig. 6is a view similar to Fig. 3, illustrating a modified structure.

It may be premised that a spectacle-frame consists, essentially, of abridge or nose-piece, A, and two lens-containing rims, B, together withsuitable joint-pieces secured to the outer sides of the rims, to whichare pi voted the temple-pieces. The latter not forming any part of theinvention are not herein shown, but may obviously be of any of thewell-known forms.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged- In the practical manufacture of the improvedspectacle-frame the bridge or nosepieee and the lens-containing rims aremade of separate and independent pieces stamped or compressed from astrip of metal. The nosepieee A, formed in either of the modes referredto, is provided with enlarged flattened ends 10, having a central hole,9, and. simultaneous with the formation of the enlargements thenose-piece may be shaped, as shown. The lens-containing rims B areformed with alongitudinal groove to receive the lens, and will beprovided at one end with a similar fiattened enlargement, 12, which,when the rim is bent into elliptical form, will correspond with and lieadjacent to the flattened enlargement at one end of the nose-piece. Thisenlargement 12 may be also pierced to receive a pin, 13, Fig. 4, rivetedtherein and screw-threaded as shown, and adapted to pass through thehole in the enlargement of the nosepiece, where it is engaged by athumb-nut, 14, to adjustably and detachably hold the end of the rim tothe spectacle-frame. The opposite end of the rim may be left plain, asshown, and the enlargements on the nose-piece may be slotted, as at 8,Fig. 1, to receive this end of the rim, to which it is permanentlysecured by soldering. The joint-pieces D for the templepieces in thisform of the lens-containin g rims may be shaped, as shown in Fig. 3, orof any other suitable shape, the securing end thereof being grooved tosnugly fit the side of the rim to which it may be soldered.

It is not essential that the lens-containing rims be formed of a singlepiece, but, as shown 0 (I, each piece provided at one end witlfprojections 7, that may be soldered together and afterwardscrew-threaded, as shown, to receive a j oint-piece, D, having athreaded socket, and thus serving to secure the joint-piece to the rimB, as shown at the left side of Fig. (i. The other end of the piece 0maybe secured to the nose-piece in a manner similar.to that beforedescribed, and the opposite end of the piece (Z will be provided wit-h aflattened enlargement, 12, which of course may either be integraltherewith or soldered to the end (Z, and a pin or stud, 13, secured, asbefore described.

Instead of forming-an enlargement, 12, on

or punchedfrom sheet metal or drawn, rolled,-

in Fig. 6, may be each formed of two pieces,

the end of the rims to receive and sustain the pin 13, it is obviousthat such pin may be j formed integral with the rim and bent up at i anangle thereto, as is seen in Fig. 5. So, too, l instead of securing theends '7 of the two-part l rim together by a threaded socket joint-pieee,as before described, sueh soeketmay be plain and the ends solderedtherein.

\Vhat I claim is 1. The herein-deseribed speetaele-fran1e, eonsisting ofanose-pieee and closed lens-eon taining rims formed independent of eachother, one end of each rim being permanently 1 secured to the nose-pieceand the other end i detaehably seeu red to the nose-piece.

The herein-described frame, consisting of a nose-piece andlens-containing rims formed independentofeach other, one endot eaeh rimbeing permanently secured to the nose-piece l and the nosepieee having aperii'oration for detaehably seenring the other end of the rim.

3. The herein -deseribed spectacle-iframe, emsisting of a nose-piece andlows-containing rims formed independent of each other and Seeuredtogether, the said rims each being formed of two pieces secured togetherat one end, one of the opposite ends of the rims havin g ends detaehablsecured to the 'HOSG-PlOCO.

-l. A blank for a speetaele-frame, the same 1 consisting of a nose-piecehaving perforated and flattened enlarged ends, and lens-containing rimseach having an end permanently attached to the nose-piece and anotherend provided with a pin or stud lor detachable engagement with theperforation in the nosepiece, substantially as described.

A blank for a s1 retaele-frame, the same consisting of a nose-1 leeehaving pm'l'orated and slotted ends and lens-containing rims each havingan end )rovided with a pin or stud for detachable engagementwith theperforation in thei'iose-pieee, substantially asdescribed.

(i. A blank for consisting of a nose-piece having perforated enlargedends, and lens containing rims formed of two pieees having ends 7 forseeuring them together and attachment of jointpieces, and one of theopposite ends of the rims having a pin or stud for detaehableengagementwith the perforation in the end oi the nose-piece,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto allix my signature in presence of twowiti'iesses.

' JAMES I l. HEARING.

\Vitnesses:

J. R. (-ijnnAsoX, A. M. (.nomnnnnv.

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